Humanism in oncology. What makes education in communication transformative?
Humanism in oncology. What makes education in communication transformative?
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10.1080/08858190902854863
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2009
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Fryer-Edwards K
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Back AL;Arnold RM;Baile WF;Tulsky JA;Fryer-Edwards K
ANTHONY L. BACK, MD, ROBERT M. ARNOLD, MD, WALTER F. BAILE, MD, JAMES A. TULSKY, MD, KELLY FRYER-EDWARDS, PHD n our years of teaching communication skills, we have had our share of duds. But we have also had successes that went far beyond our expectations, interventions that had a catalytic effect on learners—leaving them changed and renewed. The medical literature has little to say about these kinds of peak learning experiences. Yet when we talk to other accomplished educators about the work that really matters to them, these are the moments they talk about. 1, 2 In our experience, these catalytic events are the kind of learning that creates physicians who plumb the humanistic aspects of their work, physicians who have a curiosity about people and a capacity to build relationships that foster healing. In fact, such learning experiences can be transformational. What can a teacher to do encourage transformational learning? In this essay, we describe 4 essential design principles that will help create an environment in which such growth can occur. What we mean by transformational is that learners take away more than another factoid or even collection of skills; they leave with a new way of thinking about their work. They take on a mission, a sense of what their work should accomplish that is much larger than a shift in attitude. After 1 of our communication workshops, 1 fellow went home and tried out, in clinic, her new skills in responding to emotion. The very first patient said to her, surprised,“no doctor has ever talked to me like this”—and the experience changed how she thought of her work as an oncologist. In the workshop, we had focused primarily on skills, not wanting to seem too “touchy feely.” What we did not anticipate was that through practicing the skills, she changed her way of being a physician. As Aristotle might say, moral practice shapes our character. By walking the walk, one becomes a different person. We would say the same for communication skills: Practicing empathy creates a new way of thinking about doctoring.Our collective experience in understanding what engenders transformative education is based on 2 linked projects, both funded by the National Cancer Institute: Oncotalk and Oncotalk Teach. Oncotalk was a 4-day national intensive communication skills retreat for Medical Oncology fellows that ran from 2002 to 2007. 3 In Oncotalk, we developed a residential workshop for teaching communication skills, with a core of skills practice with simulated patients in small groups surrounded by a series of reflective experiences, both formal and informal. The outcomes we collected indicated that the Oncotalk intervention resulted in measurable changes in communication behaviors. 4 What we did not expect is that the project changed how many of these fellows viewed their relationships with patients. They have written articles, taught other learners, and created a new social network of oncologists committed to communication as a fundamental part of their work. 5 Oncotalk Teach is an ongoing faculty development project intended to translate the teaching practices we identified in Oncotalk for a different teaching situation. Although the teaching in Oncotalk was done in specialized workshops, most communication teaching occurs during outpatient clinic and inpatient rotations. Oncotalk Teach focuses on equipping faculty to teach communication more effectively in these real-time encounters. 6 The fundamental distinction in Oncotalk and Oncotalk Teach is that communication involves 2 kinds of data:
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